Sunday, 8 December 2013

Carrot sandwich cake

I love carrot cake but it dawned on me recently, in one of
my ‘thinking about cake’ moments that you don’t usually see it served as a
sandwich cake. It’s usually a traybake
or cupcake.

The thought was tucked away in the part of my brain given
over to storing cake related matters (about 3/4s of my brain) and resurfaced
when I was browsing in a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern grocery store and came
across carrot jam. It’s a sweet jam for
spreading on toast or teacakes, not a savoury sort you’d serve with cold meats
or cheese...in other words, perfect for being the filling in a sandwich cake.

Personally I love a carrot cake with raisins but, as I was
serving this when raisin-haters were present, I stuck with walnuts. You can easily substitute raisins for
walnuts, or use a mixture of the two.

A classic cream cheese frosting is all that’s required to
cover the cake. It is the perfect
accompaniment for carrot cake so why change it?
The sponge is incredibly light and carries the satisfyingly thick and
tangy frosting perfectly.

It’s a good time of year to make carrot cake – it has
Christmas spicing but no Christmas connotations so the ‘bah humbug’ brigade
cannot object to it or moan about Christmas starting too early. I think of it as Christmas
by stealth!

16 comments:

ahhh I'm a fellow raisin hater so I'm glad you left it out. love carrot cake i think its best in sandwich form too....that way you get double helping of yummy cream cheese frosting. Delicious looking cake CC.

And you know, the reason why I'm always tempted by carrot cake in teashops is because it is usually presented as a huge luscious slice, wedged together by creamy frosting. Traybakes are more homestyle, as you say. So a recipe to make this sandwich treat at home is a delight!

love the idea of christmas by stealth CC. am not so sure about carrot jam though. i have a wonderful carrot cake recipe that i usually make as a sandwich.you've just inspired me to include jam in the middle with the cream cheese next time. pineapple jam maybe?

my recipe has coconut flakes and pineapple chunks (cut small) as well as walnuts and raisins (that's something for you to store in the cake related matters section of your brain)

btw, when i was in uni in wales, we used to get a delish apple crumble at the refractory. I've looked and looked and can't come up with any recipe that does my memory justice. Could you do one sometime please... when you're not in stealth christmas mode...

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